GLIMPSES OF UNFAMILIAR JAPAN - Lafcadio Hearn - 1894 Lafcadio Hearn, half-Greek half-British free soul of the 19th Century, arrives in Yokohama, Japan, in 1890, as a journalist. Used to find the magic everywhere it is (from France to the West Indies and...

This Sunday, as it was part of my New Year good resolutions, I went to say hello to the bust of my great, great idol : I give you Mr. Lafcadio Hearn. If afterlife exists, this guy is in my top-ten list of the people I want an appointment with when I arrive....

The last movie of the Harry Potter series is coming soon - it's not that the movies are so important compared to the books, but it maintains a certain magical expectation : watching the places you have imagined "in real", seeing the costumes, the backgrounds......